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[–] 10 pts 3y

It is running at 6 gorillion speeds.

[–] 4 pts 3y

Thats clearly an exaggeration, and maybe even Vid8 propaganda.

I just tested it and I only got 200 kilokikes/sec, max. Even if the servers were firing at full capacity, 24/7, for four years, there is no way they would achieve six gorillion megaShlomos without catching on fire.

Something about this doesn't add up.

[–] 6 pts 3y

I frickin' love Vid8. It is, as far as I can tell, the best video streaming platform on the internet in terms of content, God bless it.

[–] 6 pts 3y

I appreciate the hard work that goes into poal and vid8.

I'm on my own journey into self hosting. I run a few websites myself and recently discovered how consolidated hosting became. I therefore decided to build out my own data center. Keep in mind when I say data center, I'm talking about a single 10U rack containing everything I need. All I need is a single RJ45 connection and 110 volt line.

The servers is a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Before you laugh hysterically, the goal is to build a simple, cheap, self contained web server cluster. So far, the performance is quite good. When I run bench marks with small loads, I'm getting sub second page loads.

The software architecture is to use one Pi as a reverse proxy using Apache. Amazingly enough, I discovered Apache has built in reverse proxy, load balancing, fail over and many other features I had never known because I only cared about its one feature of serving web pages.

I'm now going through the dance of configuring it to use http2. I had no idea it was capable of that either. The real challenge here is to ensure http2 is supported from the reverse proxy all the way to the source. I think once I have http2 working all the way through the chain, the performance will improve more.

In short, I realize there is a lot to building a fast website and also making it reliable. Raspberry Pis are not high performance servers but they are cheap, use only 3 watts or less and very capable of serving multiple websites over a single gigabit connection.

[–] 2 pts 3y

I used to dev poal on a pi2, was working perfectly fine.

[–] 0 pt 3y

What's the full url? Vid8.?

[–] 0 pt 3y

It was a local instance I migrated to a VM (better performance, especially for node/webpack)

[–] 2 pts 3y

I take it you're not looking to have thousands of concurrent users. In that case, yeah rPis are fine.

[–] 3 pts 3y

Correct. Most of my sites are small businesses and typically have under 100 connections per day.

[–] [deleted] 3 pts 3y

Invalid cert date errors. 2 phones, a laptop and a desktop.

[–] 2 pts 3y

Seems to me Poal is faster too?

[–] 1 pt 3y

Getting an error on the SSL cert.

NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

Sorry if your in the middle of something or I'm an idiot or both.

[–] 1 pt 3y

Check your PC's time.

[–] 1 pt 3y

Time and date are good. Same issue on my phone.

[–] 2 pts 3y

Not After Sun, 06 Feb 2022 14:52:39 GMT

Lol it expired today

[–] 1 pt 3y

Fix that cert bruh!

[–] 4 pts 3y

Haha damn certbot..... I'm on it now.

[+] [deleted] 1 pt 3y